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Bodangora by drone: A young filmmaker shoots the breeze

Natalie Filatoff
November 29, 2018
Steering a drone around a wind turbine while maintaining perspective on the images captured by a drone-mounted video camera requires skill, focus, and absolute certainty of where the drone is in relation to its subject.
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Robotics

Ready For Take Off: UPS Is Testing Residential Delivery By Drone

Mark Wallace
March 20, 2017

UPS’ latest drone test, which successfully delivered a package from the roof of a company truck, shows that the gap between vision and reality is closing. "There’s definitely a lot to learn and plenty of reason for excitement about drones," says Mark Wallace, UPS Senior Vice President of Global Engineering and Sustainability.

 

 
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drones

What Drones May Come: The Flight Plan For The Future Of UAVs

Brandon Stark
February 16, 2017

Get a taste of a drone-enabled future by looking at innovations and explorations from researchers, students and employees at one of the nation's largest university systems, led by Brandon Stark. He's the founding director of the University of California Center of Excellence on Unmanned Aircraft System Safety, which provides support and training for regulatory compliance and the safe operation of drones across the University of California system.

 

 
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

January 06, 2017
It’s the start of 2017, and we can’t help but wonder what amazing scientific advances await. Judging by the year’s first haul, we may soon be able to push things around with tractor beams, print electronics on paper and toast to science with a glass of chardonnay nurtured by data. Cheers!
 

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drones

This Drone Visited The World's No. 1 Hydropower Plant. Here's What It Found.

Tomas Kellner
June 23, 2016
The American Society of Civil Engineers calls Brazil’s Itaipu Dam on the Paraná River one of the seven wonders of the modern world. The massive structure holds a row of 20 giant turbines, half of them manufactured by GE Renewable Energy. In 2008, they generated 94,684 megawatts, then the largest amount of power ever from a single dam. Itaipu alone supplies Brazil with a quarter of its power, and Paraguay with 90 percent of its electricity needs.
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Perspectives

Helping Drones Colonize the World — Q&A with Chris Anderson

Chris Anderson 3d Robotics
GE Look Ahead
October 01, 2014
The U.S. government is expected to allow commercial drone operations in 2015, which has already helped to spark a burgeoning market for small, cheap robotic aircraft. Chris Anderson, former editor-in-chief of Wired magazine, has been at the forefront of the industry, first by starting the popular DIYDrones.com website, and now as founder and CEO of drone maker 3D Robotics.
 
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